Ever want more insight into how anime is made on the production side? Studio Trigger producer Kazuya Masumoto—who has worked on titles like Kill la Kill, SSSS.GRIDMAN, and PROMARE, among others—is here to offer it with a new anime production handbook. Best of all, the …Read more »
CD PROJEKT RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 game was recently delayed to November 19, but that isn’t stopping the hype at all. In fact, the anticipation has only increased, especially with today’s announcement of a new anime set in the same universe produced by none other than …Read more »
The only thing better than one electrifying TRIGGER anime is two mashed together, and that’s exactly what we got in a new visual to celebrate a recent Q&A session with BNA: Brand New Animal director Yoh Yoshinari and writer Kazuki Nakashima. The latter was also …Read more »
If you’ve been eagerly awaiting the English debut of Trigger’s new anime series, BNA: Brand New Animal, its Netflix launch outside of Japan is right around the corner. The @NXOnNetflix account announced plans to premiere the series worldwide on June 30, and you can see …Read more »
SSSS.DYNAZENON, the SSS.GRIDMAN followup by the folks at Trigger and Tsuburaya, was announced last November. Now we’ve got a fresh look at the series via (an admittedly low-resolution) new visual and some cast details. While we’d previously been given a look at the series’ main …Read more »
BNA: Brand New Animal, the latest series from Trigger and director Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia) is set to hit Netflix… sometime. The first six episodes of the series have aired on Japanese TV and are streaming on Netflix in Japan, but you know how …Read more »
The tokusatsu-inspired action of SSSS.GRIDMAN is going to get new life in the near future. While it’s explicitly not a sequel, Tsuburaya Productions and TRIGGER have teamed up again to produce a new anime called SSSS.DYNAZENON, with the staff from GRIDMAN set to return. Akira Amemiya is directing, with Keiichi …Read more »
Studio Trigger producer Kazuya Masumoto has some numbers for us. Fresh off a keynote speech at Ufotable’s Machi Asobi, a yearly festival set up by the studio, Masumoto logged onto Twitter and repeated some of his key points. Being a producer, Masumoto’s a money guy, and he …Read more »
Indivisible is the next game from Lab Zero, the team behind the Skullgirls fighter, and fans have been keeping an eye on it ever since it was first announced. Back in 2016, the developers revealed that animation powerhouses TRIGGER (Kill la Kill, PROMARE) and Titmouse (Metalocalypse, Black Dynamite) would be …Read more »
At Otakon 2019 in Washington, DC I was able to see an advance screening of Promare, the first theatrical film offering from anime studio TRIGGER. Courtesy of the film’s US distributor, GKIDS Films, I was able to ask them collectively some questions leading up to the …Read more »
Promare, the new flick from the folks behind Kill la Kill, has topped 1 billion yen at the Japanese box office: no mean feat for an original anime film. Now fans have a reason to go see the film again. From August 23 to the end of September, …Read more »
Promare is a hit. The original anime film from the creative team behind Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill has made over 1 billion yen at the Japanese box office since it opened May 24. At the current exchange rate, 1 billion yen is $9.4 million. Earning a billion yen …Read more »
If you’re pumped for Arc System Works’ fighting game take on Trigger’s Kill la Kill anime, you just have another nine days to wait. It all goes down on PS4, Switch, and PC on July 26, and you can meet lead characters Satsuki Kiyruin and Ryuko Matoi …Read more »
Trigger’s original anime film Promare—directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima—is back in the spotlight in a new promo and poster. The stylish collaboration with XFLAG Studio hits Japan on May 24, and Superfly is lined up to provide the theme song, “Awakening,” as …Read more »
Arc System Works and developer APlus Games are cooking up a fighting game based on Trigger’s Kill la Kill anime, and it looks pretty faithful so far. Even more surprising than the existence of Kill la Kill: IF is the fact that it’s getting the English dub actors in on the …Read more »
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